snowstorm
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsnəʊstɔːm/
snowstorm (plural snowstorms)
- Bad weather involving blowing winds and snow, or blowing winds and heavy snowfall amount.
- A snow globe.
- 1947, Dornford Yates, The Berry Scene, Ward, Lock & Co., gbooks wWYIAQAAIAAJ:
- As we made our way down, my eye was caught by a snowstorm—one of those little glass balls, with a baby cottage inside.
- 1947, Dornford Yates, The Berry Scene, Ward, Lock & Co., gbooks wWYIAQAAIAAJ:
- (bad weather) blizzard
- (snow globe) snowdome, snow globe
- French: tempête de neige
- German: Schneesturm
- Italian: tormenta, bufera di neve
- Portuguese: nevasca (Brazil), nevão (Portugal), tempestade de neve (both)
- Russian: мете́ль
- Spanish: nevada, nevasca, tormenta de nieve
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